Islam vs. Muslims

In this age of terror attacks by terrorists organisations which have been branded as Islamic fascists by the global media, people around the world have raised questions over the very tenants of islam as a peaceful religion, some even have gone on to say that islam itself propagates terror. The truth remains that islam like any other religion in the world is peaceful in essence or theory if u may allow me to say so. Time and again basic tenants of islam have been twisted by some and presented to mislead its followers.


To fortify my case i shall give the example of the prophet in the early stages of islam when he was exiled from mecca and had shifted his base to medina. On his return to mecca for Hajj the people of mecca thought that muslims had come to wage a war. The reality was far from that. The prophet announced that their intentions were peaceful, much to the joy of the residents of mecca as they were clearly outnumbered. Again when the peace treaty was signed between the prophet and the leaders of mecca, Muhammad agreed to the condition of signing the treaty as just Muahammad against to the prophet of god. It was in the interest of long term peace in the region that the prophet had agreed to this condition.


In the time of Muhammad as the caliph of the Islamic world, never was a battle waged to occupy any territory . All battles were defensive in nature or in response to any atrocities being committed upon Muslims. A policy that was carried on by Ali and the other caliphs who descended from Ali(in short the rightful heirs to the caliphate). These incidents are a part of modern history and thus are recorded and documented. Therefore, none around the world can ever deny these incidents wether shia, sunni, wahabis or non muslims.


Today islam stands divided in many sects- sunni, shia, wahabis. In theory sunnis and shias have stuck to the true islam and the teachings and instructions of the prophet. It is the wahabiyat sect that has come up with modifications in islam. The prophet and his progeny are not held in so much high esteem as the other sects do. They even stand accused of trying to subdue the beliefs of other sects. But the most striking thing to note here is that terrorism has gained prominence along with wahabism. With the discovery of oil under wahabi soil the funding of terrorists organisations have seen a many fold increase. Ofcourse, after the wahabi sect in Saudi Arabia other middle eastern countries followed suit but none can deny the hand played by the wahabi movement in the rise of terrorism.


These terrorists organisations twist and turn the teachings of islam and thus are successful in brainwashing innocent muslims who mostly are in a dire need of financial assistance. The problem also lies in the fact that muslims generally are not very thorough with their own religion. That compounds to the problem. E.g. many girls were murdered brutally in Pakistan by terror groups because they wanted to marry a man of their choice. Thank god, the prophet’s wife Khadija was not born in these times otherwise they would have murdered her too considering the fact that she chose Muhammad as her husband and not the other way round. Whereas if the majority of the public knew how open minded islam is these terror groups would have seen opposition like never before.
These terror groups with their elaborate funding now have a huge global footprint. The fight against terror cannot be won by missiles and bombs but by education and job opportunities. We should ask ourselves- why would anyone prefer to blow himself up rather than live a peaceful life? The answer is no one. We need to eradicate the very root cause of this problem and that is poverty.


In the times of the prophet or his successors like Ali and his family, it was considered a sin if in battle a soldier on horseback and one on foot fought. They both had to be on the same level of armoury and weapons to fight. How can muslims even think that jihad of such sorts shall be allowed in islam. Even if at war civilians were spared by Islamic forces in those times. Now in the name of jihad many innocent lives are lost almost daily.
The number of historical incidents that disapprove today’s jihad are endless. Today it is muslims themselves that are creating problems for their brothers. The western powers also attacked Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 only. Thus, the argument that they killed thousands of muslims falls flat. The most humorous part personally is that leaders of terrorist organistaions promise heaven to their soldiers of terror in return for their life and service. The thought to ponder upon is do they even know that they shall burn in the fires of hell for eternity. No religion in this world gives you heaven for murdering, torturing and snatching away the rights of people given by god.

Problems With Programming ??

Well guys, if you all have some problems in programming, here's something for you, well, i xpect that you are be atleast a bit intell to make a loop in c++, or any other language..

Generally i ignore all the automated messages (which are almost 'spam-like') but this was prity interesting... her's what i got:

from: The CodeChef Team <anusha@codechef.com>
to: mailto:tprasannjeetsingh@gmail.com
date: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:16 PM
subject: CodeChef on Campus - October
2009
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7:16 PM (1 hour ago)

Hi Prasanjeet, Welcome to the 1st edition of
CodeChef on Campus the official CodeChef Campus Newsletter CodeChef has come a
long way since its beta launch in Jan 09. We hosted our first programming
contest in March and soon started looking at other ways we can encourage the
developer community. One of our earliest initiatives was CodeChef Campus
Chapters aimed at helping students become better programmers. The response from
you guys has been awesome and within a few of months we already have 35 active
Campus Chapters from all over India.

In an effort to keep you updated
with what is happening on all our Campus Chapters we plan to dish out a CodeChef
Monthly Campus Newsletter. Here’s what we've got for you this month:
·
Recommended Campus Activity with Topic of the Month
· Update on Activities
Undertaken by Student Reps

Topic of the Month
Overview: Each month we will be picking a programming topic to discuss in
detail on our wiki. We will provide links, tutorials, and practice problems to
help you master the subject. This month's topic is Recursion
and Memoization and has been explained with the example of Sums in a
Triangle.

Suggested Activity: Once a Chapter member solves one of the
practice problems mentioned in the Recursion
tutorial he/she can conduct a session where the solution is explained to other
participants/members on Campus. If required, this can be done with the help of a
professor.

Campus Chapter Activities
Spreading the
word
There certain Student reps that have proactively tried to get the word
out to their peers; we feel they deserve a special mention.
· Rajneesh from
IEET Baddi has created a website for his CodeChef Campus Chapter – Encipher. The
site lists his Chapter members, gives details about the program and displays
contact information. He has also created Facebook and Orkut groups for his
members. · Paritosh and Sailesh from Delhi College of Engineering have put up an
announcement on their DCE forum about their contest that will be hosted on 27th
October.

Write into us at campus@codechef.com and spread the word
about your chapter's activities.

Sessions Organized
Two engineering colleges in Mumbai MPSTME, NMIMS and Fr Conceicao College of
Engineering organized sessions in which Vikram (vix on CodeChef Twitter)
demonstrated The Basic Implementation of a Search Engine The video is put up on
the blog and you can also check out the pictures on our Flickr Stream

Campus Contests hosted on CodeChef We have hosted various college
contests as a part of the Campus Chapters Program. In every contest the students
themselves set the problems, promoted the contests and organized the entire
event. With countless number of emails exchanged and the occasional goof ups we
have successfully hosted contests for:
·
Manipal Institute of Technology
· MPSTME, NMIMS Campus, Mumbai
· Fr.
Conceicao College of Engineering, Mumbai
· Thapar University
· Pune
Institute of Computer Technology Round 1 and Round 2
This month we are going
to host contests for:
· Delhi College of Engineering
· VNIT Nagpur
·
NIT Suratkal
We'd really like to hear more about what your chapter is doing
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So, if you have problems with recursion, i suggest to give this thing a look, i assure it will help you!!

Great News...

Well, this is just to inform you that one of our "expert" classmates has written a great book on how to optimise the pc speed and all that good stuff in just 91 pages. It is really read-worthy and everyone of us should atleast give it a look once:


" A definitive guide to users for enhancing their computing experience. Main topics include creation of custom OS (Vista, XP), software reviews, proxies, setting up OpenDNS, touch typing and other innovative stuff!"

SPEED UP YOUR PC: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES BY KARAN DWIVEDI


so here you are with the links :

Rapidshare.com :
http://rapidshare.com/files/245437101/Speed_Up_Your_PC.rar

Rapidshare.de :
http://rapidshare.de/files/48471718/SpeedUpYourPC--KaranDwivedi.zip.html

Megaupload :
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BHE6SGEH

Mediafire :
http://www.mediafire.com/?naygmn2zzdn

Note: If you are using any proxy server for the connections, as we do in MIT, the Mediafire link will be the best one.
Enjoy and give it a look, after all the author is our classmate :)

and ya, if your go through the book, pls dont forget to leave a comment here.

Correction...

The post regarding the tech tatva halfdays is dated for 07/09/09/ Sorry for the inconvenience caused!

Notice...

WELL, THIS WILL BE THE ONE AND ONLY POST IN THIS PAGE...

NOTIFICATIONS HALTED DUE TO ENDSEMS... CONTACT ME FOR DETAILS

23/10/2009: There is no maths class today guys, so, dont worry... !!

22/10/2009: No BET class on saturday, as well as no EM class on saturday, but but but... our very new Maths teacher may take the EM class on saturday!! :( ... I'll confirm this news on friday, i.e. tomorrow.

19/10/2009: Our new maths teacher is once again changed, you will be shortly informed about the second new teacher!!

15/10/2009: Shankar Rao sir's slides are now available here, just click here, or if it dosent work, copy the following url to your address bar: http://is.gd/4kzNb remember, the url is case sensitive.
Password to unlock : mitcsel.blogspot.com

15/10/2009: Maths class by DN sir cancelled today, class starts from 9:30 am. He MAY not come tomorrow too. I'll confirm about this later.

13/10/2009: EM assignment number 2 and notes on truss is now available on the Om Xerox.

05/10/2009: Maths class was cancelled by KBC sir today, instead, KM sir took the class on 10:30, and all of us were freed by 11:30.

02/10/2009: No class of BET by SL ma'am on saturday.

30/09/2009: Mathematics assignments can be submitted two days late too.

17/09/2009: There will be no Chemistry class on saturday, i.e. on the 19th of september, 2009, instead, KKS sir (EM) will take his class on 9:00 AM. So, no need to come on 8:00 am.

17/09/2009: The mathematics tutorial notes of curve tracing will also be available in the om xerox by tomorrow :)

17/09/2009: The Basic Electrical Technology assignment is also available in the Om Xerox.

17/09/2009: The word accent english sheet is now available in Om Xerox.

12/09/09: Well, our results are now available in the manipal site, or well, you can download one here too, just click here!!

11/10/09: There is NO BET class tomorrow, i.e. 12th of september, 2009. But you have to come to class, as usual, on 8:00 AM.

10/10/09: If you dont have the C++ compiler, mail me for a copy.

10/09/09: I gave the environment speech presentations date in the board, so if you dont know or were absent, ask your friends.

09/09/09: Maths assignment now available in Om Xerox.

08/09/09: EM assignment and English Sheet now available in Om Xerox.

07/08/09: We will be having half day (only classes before lunch) during the tech tata, from 8th to the 12th of this month.